’Protect your magic’: A survival guide for journalists of color(Poynter)
“There’s an awakening among journalists of color in public media,” Brenda Salinas writes. “The racist and sexist incidents that many of us have privately endured aren’t anomalies. They’re systemic.” Preparing to be a mentor to female journalists of color as stories of abuse and harassment in public media broke, Salinas prepared a “survival guide” for journalists of color. The guide covers everything from what “paying your dues” does and does not mean to what research you should do before taking a job to how to prioritize your mental health at work.

Jonah Peretti: Facebook’s media partners are helping the company make money, but it’s not sharing revenue(CJR)
“My main criticism of Facebook is it has done lot of experiments, but it’s making gobs and gobs of money on News Feed, and its partners are providing a large chunk of that content, but that’s the one place where it’s not sharing revenue,” BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti says in a Q&A with Mathew Ingram. Peretti goes on to argue in favor of Facebook paying publishers: “If you want to get rid of fake news or sensationalistic content or whatever it is, the best way to influence the content that’s there and shape it in a positive way would be to say I am going to reward content with traffic — which it already does — but I’m also going to reward it with revenue. … You don’t have much control over news companies if you’re not paying them anything.”

In local news deserts, libraries are moving in to fill the void (The Atlantic)
In communities where local newspapers have folded or shrunk, libraries are emerging as one of the best places to get information in breaking news situations, David Beard writes. “It makes sense that librarians would get it right,” he explains. “Librarians understand the value of accuracy. They are familiar with databases. Americans by and large trust librarians, actually much more than they trust journalists. And in a nation where traditional local-news outlets are cutting back, their advertising coffers drained by Google and Facebook, their ownership increasingly by hedge funds or other out-of-town enterprises, where else can a citizen go? In some communities, the questions are basic: Who will sift through and list the best events so residents could decide whether to participate? Who would understand what makes an area distinctive and would get its history right?”